No. 18-1302

Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-04-15
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause
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Latest Conference: 2019-05-23
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 US.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. 2. Whether the Tenth Circuit ignored United States Supreme Court precedent and created a circuit split by holding that a post hoc temporal and qualitative assessment in property rights can dispossess the bankruptcy estate. 3. Whether Fed.R.Bankr.P. 1016 has the force of a federal statute and mandates that the death of the Debtor shall not abate a liquidation case under chapter 7 of the Code.

Docket Entries

2019-05-28
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2019.
2019-04-25
Waiver of right of respondent Andrea Chernushin to respond filed.
2019-04-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 15, 2019)

Attorneys

Andrea Chernushin
Michael Jason GatesFoster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP, Respondent
Michael Jason GatesFoster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP, Respondent
Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee
Mark A. LarsonLarson Law Firm, LLC, Petitioner
Mark A. LarsonLarson Law Firm, LLC, Petitioner